Investor Adam Draper recounts the day the US government sold 30,000 bitcoins at auction, a day he argues changed perception of the tech forever.

The Czech koruna jumped today against major currencies as the country’s central bank abandoned its policy of pegging its value to the euro. The decision, taken today, was announced with immediate effect, sending the koruna, or crown, up by 1.55 per cent against the euro at the time of writing. One euro hit lows of 26.6 koruna in mid-afternoon trading, down from the pegged level of 27 koruna to the euro.

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Many feel that a “hard fork,” creating two separate currencies, is imminent.

Some small-time traders are taking advantage of the absence of rules governing crypto-currencies in India by creating multi-level marketing (MLM) or pyramid-like schemes with bitcoin as the base product. The issue of multi-level marketing schemes is a global problem; however, these are now gaining traction in India owing to a lack of governing guidelines and the rapid rise in value of the crypto-currency, according to Digital Assets and Blockchain Foundation of India (DABFI), a self regulatory organization for bitcoin and blockchain companies.

The Mexican peso rallied on Friday to its strongest level since the day following the U.S. presidential election after U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said that a new mechanism should be created to stabilize the exchange rate. The peso MXN=MXN=D2 strengthened more than 2.3 percent to 19.5200 per dollar, its best showing since Nov. 9 after Donald Trump's surprise election win. Mexico's central bank, which has hiked interest rates by 325 basis points since last year...

Industry heads cite global factors for surge; see the currency reaching $US2000 by the end of the year.

It seems that the drama with the PBOC and regulations in China is becoming less and less significant, as these news don’t seem to have as much impact on the price. In fact, the price is on the way to recovered to pre-crackdown prices as Bitcoin is trading at $1035 on Bitstamp. On Feb. 9th, the PBOC released quite a threatening statement which tanked Bitcoin’s price 10%, on the bright side it looks like the worst is behind and Bitcoin is setting a new price floor at $1000.

Bitcoin’s rise back above the $1,000 mark for the first time in three years, amid continuing global economic uncertainty, signposts its emerging niche as a long-term store of value – with other blockchain platforms emerging to provide facilities as transactional currencies. Markets move in cycles and it is not surprising that, three years after the speculative bubble at the end of 2013, bitcoin is enjoying a resurgence of interest.

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Twenty million Indians just got a 50% break on their taxes. The country's annual budget, rolled out Wednesday by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, slashes the tax rate from 10% to 5% on income between 250,000 rupees ($3,700) and 500,000 rupees ($7,400). The change means that the roughly 20 million Indians with incomes within that bracket will see their tax liability halved next year. Indians earning less than 250,000 rupees do not pay income tax.

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Hand over your coins. That is the message being sent by the central bank in South Korea as one of the world's most technologically advanced and integrated nations eyes the advent of a "cashless society." The first step is to get rid of the metal, a feat authorities hope to achieve by 2020.

A federal court on Wednesday ruled that the Internal Revenue Service can serve digital-currency-services company Coinbase with a “John Doe summons” that seeks detailed information on its customers’ transactions from 2013 to 2015.

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Across the United States, cannabis operations are now becoming common. However, cannabis business owners from fully-legalized states such as Washington and Colorado are having a hard time cashing in on their frowned-upon weed businesses. According to Motherboard, one Colorado hemp farmer is turning to bitcoin and teaching others how to leverage the decentralized currency.